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2014-08-27	ARM: 8128/1: abort: don't clear the exclusive monitors	Mark Rutland	1	-6/+0
	The ARMv6 and ARMv7 early abort handlers clear the exclusive monitors upon entry to the kernel, but this is redundant: - We clear the monitors on every exception return since commit 200b812d0084 ("Clear the exclusive monitor when returning from an exception"), so this is not necessary to ensure the monitors are cleared before returning from a fault handler. - Any dummy STREX will target a temporary scratch area in memory, and may succeed or fail without corrupting useful data. Its status value will not be used. - Any other STREX in the kernel must be preceded by an LDREX, which will initialise the monitors consistently and will not depend on the earlier state of the monitors. Therefore we have no reason to care about the initial state of the exclusive monitors when a data abort is taken, and clearing the monitors prior to exception return (as we already do) is sufficient. This patch removes the redundant clearing of the exclusive monitors from the early abort handlers. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-02	ARM: entry: data abort: tail-call the main data abort handler	Russell King	1	-9/+6
	Tail-call the main C data abort handler code from the per-CPU helper code. Update the comments in the code wrt the new calling and return register state. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-02	ARM: entry: data abort: avoid using r2 in abort helpers	Russell King	1	-4/+4
	This allows us to pass the pt_regs pointer in to these functions ready for tail-calling the abort handler. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-02	ARM: entry: data abort: arrange for CPU abort helpers to take pc/psr in r4/r5	Russell King	1	-2/+2
	Re-jig the CPU abort helpers to take the PC/PSR in r4/r5 rather than r2/r3. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-03	arm: mm: qsd8x50: Fix incorrect permission faults	Dave Estes	1	-0/+21
	Handle incorrectly reported permission faults for qsd8650. On permission faults, retry MVA to PA conversion. If retry detects translation fault. Report as translation fault. Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Estes <cestes@quicinc.com>
2008-09-01	[ARM] 5227/1: Add the ENDPROC declarations to the .S files	Catalin Marinas	1	-0/+1
	This declaration specifies the "function" type and size for various assembly functions, mainly needed for generating the correct branch instructions in Thumb-2. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-05-08	[ARM] armv7: add support for ARMv7 cores.	Catalin Marinas	1	-0/+32
	This patch adds support for the ARMv7 cores. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>